Rose Hill ? The parents of Martin Burnham plan to return this month to the Philippines, where their missionary son was killed after he and his wife were held captive for months by Muslim rebels.

Paul and Oreta Burnham will leave the place they’ve called home for the last 18 months. And the story of those months is told by the photographs in their home.

They show their son Martin and his wife, Gracia ” together, healthy and smiling; Martin and Gracia’s three children playing soccer and football in Rose Hill, where they were sent after their parents were abducted last year; the Burnham family with President Bush in the Oval Office, months after Martin was killed and Gracia rescued.

The last 18 months, including agonizing over Martin’s death, won’t be put behind them, the Burnhams say, but it is time for them to return to the life they lived before.

Soon they will be back in their northern Philippines village, translating the Bible for members of the Ibaloi tribe, as they’ve done since 1970.

It won’t be easy leaving Gracia Burnham and their three grandchildren ” Jeff, Zach and Mindy. They’re living now at a house in Rose Hill.

But Gracia’s doing well, Oreta Burnham said, spending time with her children and proofreading chapters of her book.

The hardest part for Gracia is saying no, she said. She gets countless requests from religious organizations for speaking engagements.